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Being And Historical Change In Hegel's Science Of Logic, Jarrad Felgenhauer
Being And Historical Change In Hegel's Science Of Logic, Jarrad Felgenhauer
Theses and Dissertations--Philosophy
This dissertation, Being and Historical Change in Hegel’s Science of Logic, examines the immanent relationship between metaphysics and history, specifically historical change, through an examination of Hegel’s Science of Logic. It seems to me that this relationship has been under-explored both in metaphysics broadly and Hegel scholarship specifically. For instance, many authors have discussed the role of history in Hegel’s philosophy and many others have focused on his metaphysics. But only a few have discussed how these two aspects immanently intersect with one another; specifically, what the examination of metaphysics can teach us about interpreting history and historical …
The Subject Of Jouissance: The Late Lacan And Gender And Queer Theories, Frederic C. Baitinger
The Subject Of Jouissance: The Late Lacan And Gender And Queer Theories, Frederic C. Baitinger
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The Subject of Jouissance argues that Lacan’s approach to psychoanalysis, far from being heteronormative, offers a notion of identity that deconstructs gender as a social norm, and opens onto a non-normative theory of the subject (of jouissance) that still remains to be fully explored by feminist, gender, and queer scholars. Drawing mostly on the later Lacan, The Subject of Jouissance shows that by locating the identity of the subject in the singularity of its bodily mode of enjoyment (that Lacan calls “jouissance”), and not in the Imaginary illusions of the ego, nor in the Symbolic social structures, Lacan fosters thinking …